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Markhamia sessilis

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Filed as Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Type of Markhamia sessilis Sprague var. brachyrhyncha Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Markhamia tomemtosa (Benth.) K.Schum. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Markhamia tomemtosa (Benth.) K.Schum. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Syntype of Markhamia sessilis Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Type of Markhamia sessilis Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
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Identification
Markhamia tomentosa (Benth.) K.Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Diniz,M.A., Markhamia sessilis Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Muenteria tomentosa
  • Markhamia tomemtosa
  • Markhamia sessilis
  • Spathodea lutea
  • Dolichandrone tomentosa
  • Markhamia tomentosa
  • Dolichandrone lutea

Flora

Entry for MARKHAMIA sessilis Sprague. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 516, (1905) Author: (By T. A. Sprague).
Names
MARKHAMIA sessilis Sprague. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Muenteria tomentosa Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1865, 330, t. 35, partly (as regards figure and Angola plant, excl. synonyms).
Markhamia tomentosa Hiern [family BIGNONIACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 792, not of K. Schum.
Information
A shrub or tree, 5–30 ft. high; branchlets pubescent or puberulous. Leaves 9–21 in. long; leaflets 11–15, ovate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, 3–7 1/2 in. long, 1–3 in. broad, entire or serrulate, glabrous above, except the veins (rarely puberulous), finely pubescent or glabrescent below; pseudostipules subulate, 4–5 lin. long, pubescent. Raceme terminal, oblong, elongated, tomentose; lateral cymes sessile. Pedicels 3–4 lin. long. Calyx 11–14 lin. long, rostrate, split down to within 3 lin. from the base, shortly tomentose; beak 2 1/2–4 lin. long. Corolla yellow, with reddish stripes; tube 18–19 lin. long; basal cylindric portion 3–4 lin. long, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. in diam.; lobes conspicuously glandular. Stamens inserted 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; filaments slightly thickened and furfuraceous at the base; anther-lobes 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long. Disc annular, 3/4 lin. high. Ovary 4–5 lin. long, glabrous; stigma-lobes elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, entire or dentate. Capsule slightly curved, 1 1/2–3 ft. long, 8–9 lin. broad, finely tomentose; seeds 13–18 1/2 lin. long, 3–3 1/2 lin. broad; nucleus 4 1/2–5 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Smith!Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto; near Sange, at the base of the Serra de Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 485! among the mountains of Cungulungulo, Welwitsch, 485b! and fruit, 815!

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